The screen's incredible display will come in handy for a variety of worthier, large-scale applications.

The giant television - offically known as the Highly Interactive Parallelised Display Space (HIPerSpace) – can deliver real-time rendered graphics simultaneously across 420 million pixels to audiences in two of the university's campuses at Irvine and San Diego.

The HIPerSpace system is linked together via high-performance, dedicated optical networking that can transfer massive amounts of data at any one time – up to two gigabits per second.

The university plan on making the display available to teams of scientists or engineers who need to deal with huge amounts of data in areas such as climate prediction, biomedical engineering, studying the human genome, and brain imaging.

"The higher-resolution displays allow researchers to take in both the broad view of the data and the minutest details, all at the same time," said Kuester, one of the researchers behind the project.